How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago.

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

Imagine being transported 500 million years into Earth’s past, landing in a world that feels both alien and dangerously unfamiliar. You have just arrived in the Cambrian Period, a time when life on ...

Scientists have discovered fossils showing that complex animals existed millions of years before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of life on Earth. The finds reveal a strange, diverse ...

The discovery of a new fossil site in China has revealed exceptionally well-preserved specimens from the Ediacaran Period.

Did Earth’s major diversification event really happen in one sudden explosion? Our fossil discovery suggests not.

Fossils from China reveal complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of early animal ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today’s animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...

A paleontological site discovered in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan has yielded more than 700 fossil specimens ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonized almost all environments on Earth—from hostile ...